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One viewer posted on Twitter: "Is it weird that my kids were already in bed so I watched Tom Hardy tell a bedtime story without them?"

Another wrote: "Yes I put the baby to bed and then watched the CBeebies bedtime story with Tom Hardy by myself with wine, what of it?"

Hardy follows in the footsteps of actors David Hasselhoff, Damian Lewis, Sir Derek Jacobi, James McAvoy and former Doctor Who star David Tennant, as well as astronaut Tim Peake, in signing up for the CBeebies slot.